<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I'm hoping that Ed Reitan and/or David Crosthwait will pop in with the technical specifications involving the various color formats that were in use at NBC Burbank in the spring of 1958.</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">In a post this summer, David reported that the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; ">1958, the WRC-TV dedication was "zone delay recorded at NBC Burbank in low band color with RCA 8:1 pre-emphasis on an RCA TRT-1. The low band color standard was not quite agreed upon at that time, hence there were various modes of pre-emphasis being experimented with."</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div></div><div>The facility had one RCA Color Video Tape Recorder and eight Ampex black-and-white machines that could record color using with RCA Labs hetrodyne electronics. </div><div><br></div><div>Ed says he identified <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">"RCA Labs Color" for the format of the original Eisenhower, Astaire, and other NBC color tapes used on the modified Ampex machines at </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Burbank</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> from early 1958 through at least April 1959.</span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">As I posted earlier, Ed recommends using<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> the term "RCA Broadcast Color" for the format produced by the RCA TRT-1AC, which he reports was used by NBC at </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Burbank</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> starting in April, 1958.</span></span></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div></span></span></font></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div></div></span></span></span></span></div></span></div></body></html>